Small yet highly talented HW engineering community: I was surrounded by exceptionally bright and capable coworkers, I learned a lot from multiple mentors.
Exciting Hardware projects: Surface, Xbox, Hololens are all big in SVC, tons of exciting, technically challenging work to cut your teeth on.
Good work-life balance and perks (at Silicon Valley campus) including fitness classes led by instructors, catered bfast/lunch,...

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Cons

Many, many layers of management - expect 6-9 layers of management between you and CEO - making it difficult for cultural changes to trickle down through the org.
Because of the many layers, a lot of your day-to-day depends on your direct manager. Mitigated by ease of moving internally.
Program manager heavy - many PM's overseeing schedule, but over the 4 years that I was there, I saw the same scheduling mistakes...

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Advice to Management

If you are serious about cultural changes, make sure they do trickle down.

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